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Minimalist Movie Motors

prawn1 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:41:30 +0000

Graphic designer Brandon Ortwein championed the cause of the humble van in his It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van series. Kevin Henry (Boomerjinks) over at DeviantArt is also putting vehicles in the spotlight with his set of posters. Henry takes famous motors from films and TV and illustrates them in the minimalist style.

Have a look at some of the images from Henry’s Movie Car Racing Posters series after the jump.

See more of Henry’s minimalist movie motors on DeviantArt.

[via Unreality]

He-Man: Sexy and I Know it!

prawn1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:48:56 +0000

He-Man is sex on legs. He knows it, and now you do too. Watch as he shows you the passion in his pants as he dances to LMFAO’s Sexy And I Know It.

Nailed it!

[via Geek Tyrant]

Cute “Game of Thrones” Sigils

prawn1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:03:28 +0000

Unlike Tom Gateley’s serious set of minimalist posters, French designer Renaud Forestié takes a decidedly different look at the banners of the different houses in Game of Thrones.

See the adorably cute animals that make up Forestié “Game of Thrones” sigils, after the jump.

House Arryn

House Baratheon

House Greyjoy

House Lannister

House Mormont

House Stark

House Targaryen

House Tully

It’s an ongoing project, so further additions will pop up on Forestié’s website.

[via ufunk]

Gordon Ramsay on how to Treat a Lady

prawn1 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:12 +0000

First it was Nigella Lawson being all tarty in the kitchen, and now it’s the turn of celebrity chef and potty mouth Gordon Ramsay to get the 80gumdrops treatment.

The industrious YouTube user creatively edited clips from one of Ramsay’s cooking shows to make Gordon Talks Dirty, where the chef talks about the intricacies of making love to the ladies. Ramsay provides many tips, including having a go with three fingers, shocker!

[via @Deems]

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Behold, the Icy Finger of Death!

prawn1 — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:10:35 +0000

Cameramen for BBC One’s seven-part nature series Frozen Planet captured an interesting phenomenon in the freezing waters at Little Razorback Island, in Antarctica. Using a rig of time-lapse equipment, the crew filmed what looks like an icy finger of death as it extended from the ice sheet and touched the sear floor, freezing everything around it.

This icicle of death is called a brinicle. Dr Mark Brandon at the Open University explains how such a brinicle is formed:

In winter, the air temperature above the sea ice can be below -20C, whereas the sea water is only about -1.9C. Heat flows from the warmer sea up to the very cold air, forming new ice from the bottom. The salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath.

The result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows into what has been called a brinicle.

See a brinicle forming in this little excerpt from the Frozen Planet series.

It is the first time that the crew has managed to film a brinicle forming. You can read more about how they captured the footage on the BBC website.

[via +Paul Scott]

Tobias Funke’s “I Just Blue Myself” Ice Cream

prawn1 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:12:07 +0000

Arrested Development was cancelled way before its time. Since the season finale in 2006, fans of the incredibly funny witty TV series have been praying for its return. At the recent New Yorker Festival, audiences broke out into rapturous applause when the series creator Mitch Hurwitz announced that the show (and movie!) would return to TV screens in 2013.

Overcome with happiness, illustrator Jon Defreest decided to pay homage to the show and a very special member of the Bluth family by creating a flavour of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Called I Just Blue Myself, the flavour celebrates the questionable sexuality of the family’s analyst and therapist (shortened to analrapist), Tobias Fünke.

Defreest has whipped up more ice cream flavours based on pop culture characters including Dexter, Ron Swanson, and The Dude. Have a look at those after the jump.

Ron Swanson’s ice cream received so much interest that Ben & Jerry’s had to release an official statement informing people that it was a fake flavour.

[via New York Magazine]

Hilarious “Game of Thrones” RPG

prawn1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:11:25 +0000

You may have heard the chiptune remix of the Game of Thrones opening theme and wondered what the game would be like. College Humor takes a stab at it.

Complete with elements from typical dungeon crawlers, this hilarious animation tells the happenings in season/book one of the excellent Game of Thrones, as if it were a 16-bit role-playing game. Be warned, there is some foul language, sexual content, and plot spoilers if you have neither seen nor read about the seven kingdoms.

[via +Anja van Staden]

Inside The Milky Way

prawn1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:30:26 +0000

It’s a city of stars above our heads. The Milky Way is a galaxy that stretches a staggering 600,000 trillion miles from one end to the other. And in this National Geographic TV special, we are taken on a journey through the tumultuous moments in the history of the Milky Way, from the birth of this beautiful spiral galaxy all the way to its eventual death.

One of the images used in the documentary is the 800-million-pixel panorama of the Milky Way created by the Gigagalaxy Zoom project. As grand as the image is, it’s a side-on view of the galaxy that we see and astronomers use all manner of high-tech computer tools to work out what it would like if it were viewed from a bird’s-eye view. Watch part one of Inside the Milky Way below.

Find the other parts after the jump, or you could just buy the blu-ray.

[via Geeks are Sexy]

Dexter Meets Saul Bass

prawn1 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:49:08 +0000

Illustrator Ty Mattson channels Saul Bass in his alternate openining credits to the smashing Showtime series, Dexter. Mattson had initially created a set of minimalist posters, one for each season of the show, highlighting the pivotal moments from each episode. Showtime was thoroughly impressed with his works and subsequently interviewed Mattson for a bonus feature in the season 5 DVD boxset.

Mattson then turned his focus to making the title sequence. With the help of friends from Fashion Buddha, he used his existing poster artwork to create the opening credits to Dexter as if the show was aired in the 1960s.

Have a look at Mattson’s alternate, animated Dexter intro below.

And have a gander at his fantastic poster designs after the jump.

Mattson’s Dexter artworks can be purchased on Showtime’s online shop.

[via Live For Films]

Minimalist Game of Thrones House Sigils

prawn1 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:30:42 +0000

From the boost in book sales to a highly successful TV series to all love and adoration from the Internet, there is certainly a lot of banter about Game of Thrones. Speaking about banners — OK, you got me, I said banter but what’s a little letter substitution amongst friends? — designer Tom Gateley shows appreciation for the series by creating a beautiful set of minimalist posters.

After watching the TV series, Gateley says he became slightly obsessed with the identity the houses and set about creating vector posters of each house sigil. He hopes we like them as much as he does. Have a look at his minimalist Game of Thrones posters after the jump.

See more of Gateley’s work on DeviantART.

[via +Jim Sher]

Epic “Game of Thrones” Cover Mashup

prawn1 — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:01:40 +0000

Fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones will have to wait until April 2012 to return to the Seven Kingdoms. To stave off the withdrawal symptoms, several people have taken to making creative covers of the series’ opening theme song composed by Ramin Djawadi.

You may remember Roger Lima as he banged out a rock cover on his guitars and drum kit. You may also recall Jason Yang, who used an acoustic and electric violin, and layered the 13 different tracks to create the most delightful cover I’ve heard. These two versions are wonderful on their own but in his mashup, Youtube user paolody wanted to find out what it would sound like if Lima and Yang collaborated on a truly epic Game of Thrones cover. Are the results doubly awesome? Find out below.

Hit the jump to see the individual video that went into this mashup.

[via Topless Robot]

Watch This: Adult Swim’s “Black Dynamite” Pilot Episode

prawn1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:48:39 +0000

OMG. This is hilarious. And rude. And violent. And brilliant. So, altogether nothing unusual when the name Black Dynamite is mentioned.

In this pilot episode for Adult Swim’s animated series, Black Dynamite, the Kung Fu-knowing, fried chicken-eating, lady-loving former CIA agent is trying to extract some information when he is asked to take on a more serious mission. It seems that Black Dynamite’s childhood mentor That Frog Kurtis has turned from inspirational puppet TV educator to a life of crime. Kurtis not only controls the sleaze in Puppet Street but has used the power of television to convince all the kids who watch his show to do his evil bidding. It is now up to up to Black Dynamite and his crew to beat the stuffing out of the evil pimp-ass frog. See how it goes down below [NSFW].

The animated series features the voice talents of Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite, Byron Minns (Bullhorn), Tommy Davidson (Cream Corn), and Kym Whitley (Honeybee). You’ll recognize those names from the 2009 live action film. The series is set to premiere on Adult Swim some time this year.

[via The Awesomer]

Christopher Walken Reads “The Three Little Pigs”

prawn1 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:30:16 +0000

Christopher Walken surely needs no introduction. He is famous for keeping a watch in a very safe pace, requesting the application of more cowbell, and on one occasion, he even flew through the air. He is also a very good actor.

In 1993, Walken was invited to a TV show hosted by a younger Jonathan Ross to do a special reading of the classic fairy tale, Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. Appearing in a sweater as loud as his personality, Walken reads the story in his typical style, not only entertaining the audience but himself too.

[via Scott Beale on Google+]

A Song of Ice and Fire and LEGO

prawn1 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:30:23 +0000

George R. R. Martin has certainly made an impression on people. Book sales are up and the first in the series of epic fantasy novels, Game of Thrones, will see a comic book adaptation in September. The highly successful TV show concluded its first season and viewers can expect to return to the seven kingdoms in April 2012. The Internet has been busy churning out remixes of the Game of Thrones opening theme and I wouldn’t be surprised if LEGO don’t take advantage of critical success of Game of Thrones by creating a set of commemorative characters. The haven’t done it as yet but Sam Beattie has taken a stab at it.

The game designer from Boston, USA, has cannibalised bits and bobs from existing sets to create LEGO versions of the characters. From House Stark to the scheming High Council to the murderous Clegane Brothers, the likenesses are surprisingly good. See his Game of Thrones LEGO minifigs after the jump.

Ned, Robb, and Catelyn

Sansa, Bran, Hodor, and Rickon

Jon and Arya

Daenerys, Jorah, and Drogo

Jaime, Cersei, and Tyrion

Tywin and Joffrey

Littlefinger, Pycelle, and Varys

Sandor and Gregor Clegane

Shagga and the Greatjon

George R. R. Martin

See more images from Beattie’s set on Flickr.

[via PS3ZA]

Hello Pop Culture Kitty

prawn1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:00:42 +0000

If you liked the Hello Kitty Crossovers from Kiwi illustrator Joseph Senior, you’re sure to love the creations from Andrew Mark Hunter. Under the alias of Yayzus Graphics, Hunter takes the iconic Japanese character Kitty White (born in posh London) and morphs her with characters from popular movies, TV series, and cartoons.

Say hello to Hunter’s cute mashups after the jump.

If you’re so inclined, you can purr-chase prints of Hunter’s adorable pop culture cats on his Society6 profile.

[via Anita B on Google+]

Zimmer Time!

prawn1 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:53:49 +0000

Hans Zimmer needs no introduction. The 53-year old German-born film composer, who has been in the business for 34 years now, has delighted us with wonderful scores for some of our most favourite films. Zimmer will return to amaze us in the upcoming “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”, and will re-unite with Christopher Nolan to work on “The Dark Knight Rises”.

In this music video, YouTube user MovieZoneET creates a mashup of epic scenes from popular movies and TV shows, and sets it to a wonderful piece of Zimmer music — “Time” from the Inception OST.

[via Nick de Bruyne on Google+]

Holy Compilation, Batman!

prawn1 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:20:48 +0000

In the Batman TV series from the late 60s, actor Burt Ward (originally Bert Gervis) played one half of the “Dynamic Duo”, more specifically the embarrassing half. During his time as the Boy Wonder, Ward uttered many ridiculous “Holy,____Batman!” phrases. What follows is a cringe-worthy compilation of those nonsensical exclamations.

Hit the jump to see a similar compilation from the animated series.

Which is your favourite quote? I’m quite partial “Holy anagrams, what’s the answer??!”

[via Geeks Are Sexy]

He-Man Sings “HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA”

prawn1 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:48:03 +0000

If you work for a living and aren’t particularly enamoured by your job, Monday isn’t the best of days. It signals the start of the working week and it is vital to get Monday off to a good start. Today we have a special guest singer, a veritable master of the universe, to set the tone for the rest of the week. Watch in amazement as Prince Adam serenades you with a cover to a 90s hit by the 4 Non Blondes, HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA.

[via PS3ZA]

The Picard Song

prawn1 — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:35:53 +0000

Darryn Bonthuys, from Extra Life, if you’re reading this, I hate you. The epicness that is Jean-Luc Picard is now stuck in my head.

[via Darrangedd on Twitter]

Game of Thrones: An 8-Bit Theme Remix

prawn1 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:21:24 +0000

As opening credits go, the one to Game of Thrones is quite the spectacle. The music is equally stirring and a number of people have remixed the opening theme to good effect. Roger Lima strummed a rocky cover of it, and YouTube user Brennesselano played the tune on his piano. And now comes another variation of the opening theme, this time in the style of the old 8-bit chiptunes. Check it out below.

If you’d like to download the MP3, the creator, Digitapp, has made it available on his website.

[via Geekosystem]